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Manhattan Project National Historical Park

Trinity Site, NM
  • Type: Place

On July 16, 1945, Manhattan Project scientists detonated the world’s first atomic device, known as “the Gadget,” at 5:29 am Mountain War Time. The US Army conducted the test at the Trinity Site in the Jornada del Muerto desert about 210 miles (337 km) south of Los Alamos, New Mexico. Today the Trinity Site is part of the White Sands Missile Range and can only be visited during a Trinity Site Open House, typically hosted twice a year.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Katie Shepard
  • Type: Person

Katie Shepard owned "The Beeches" hotel on North Manitou Island.

Podcast 122: Stewart Butler's Legacy of LGB Activism
  • Type: Article

Catherine Cooper speaks with Frank Perez about Stewart Butler and his legacy of LGBT+ and civil rights activism.

Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park

William Moultrie
  • Type: Person

William Moultrie's 2nd South Carolina Regiment successfully defended Charleston Harbor from the Royal Navy in the Battle of Sullivan's Island on June 28, 1776. This Patriot victory marked the beginning of a meteoric rise for Moultrie as he achieved the rank of general and later served South Carolina as governor.

Manhattan Project National Historical Park

Accessibility at Los Alamos
  • Type: Place

Manhattan Project National Historical Park is committed to ensuring that people with disabilities have equal opportunity to benefit from our facilities, programs, services, and activities whether they are indoors or outdoors. Learn more about accessible features available at Los Alamos.

Jude Hall
  • Type: Person

Jude Hall enlisted in Exeter, New Hampshire into Capt. Jacob Hinds' company, in Col. James Reed’s regiment, and was present at the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Boston National Historical Park

Jasper Clarence McCartney
  • Type: Person

Jasper McCartney spent most of his life at sea, enlisting in the U.S. Navy in 1930 at age 20. In the 1930s, he served on three destroyers, including the USS West Virginia where he worked as a fireman and watertender. In 1940, McCartney joined the crew of the USS Arkansas and was promoted to chief watertender. He was assigned to the USS Cassin Young a few days after its commissioning in December, 1943. McCartney was killed in action during a kamikaze attack on the destroyer.

Manhattan Project National Historical Park

Manhattan Project Scientists: Harry Daghlian
  • Type: Article

Harry Daghlian was among the promising young scientists who came to work at Los Alamos as part of the Manhattan Project. Harotune Krikor Daghlian Jr. (1921-1945), known as Harry, was raised in Illinois, attended MIT, and had graduated from Purdue University. He had not yet earned his doctorate in physics when he joined Project Y. Daghlian was assigned to work with Otto Frisch’s Criticality Assembly Group. He helped transport the plutonium core to the Trinity Site.

Stonewall National Monument

Stormé DeLarverie
  • Type: Person

Stormé DeLarverie was a butch lesbian with zero tolerance for discrimination, or as she called it, “ugliness.” She was born in New Orleans on Christmas Eve to a Black mother and white father. She had a beautiful baritone voice and discovered a love for jazz at a very early age. She started singing in New Orleans clubs at 15, and soon after began touring around Europe, eventually landing in New York City.

Gabriel Turner
  • Type: Person

A moment of freedom becomes a lifetime of service – and a mystery. From his escape on the Planter with Robert Smalls to a long history of military service, learn Gabriel Turner's story in this article.

LGB Memorials: UpStairs Lounge Arson Attack, New Orleans, LA
  • Type: Article

On June 24, 1973, thirty-two people were killed when a meeting of Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) members and friends was attacked by arson in this New Orleans lounge. In the aftermath of the horrific event, survivors and church members suffered rejection and homophobic ridicule from police, community members, and neighboring churches.

National Center for Preservation Technology and Training

Podcast 099: Finding and Preserving LGBTQ Southern History with the Invisible Histories Project
  • Type: Article

Catherine Cooper speaks with Josh Burford and Maigen Sullivan, the co-founders of the Invisible Histories Project their work finding and preserving queer history in the South.

Podcast 129: 50 Years of Remembering the Up Stairs Lounge Fire
  • Type: Article

Catherine Cooper speaks with Bobby Fieseler about writing "Tinderbox" and the importance of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire in LGB activism as we come up to the 50th anniversary of the fire. The Up Stairs Lounge Fire was an unsolved arson fire at a gay bar in New Orleans on June 24, 1973. With 32 dead, it was the worst mass murder of homosexual Americans in 20th century America.

Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park

Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar
  • Type: Person

Alice Dunbar Nelson was a poet, critic, journalist and activist who was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance.

Frances Benjamin Johnston
  • Type: Person

Johnston was the first woman to professionally photograph Mammoth Cave, she went on to photo-document life, blue collar workers and presidents alike.

Sitka National Historical Park

Yaadaas Crest Pole
  • Type: Place

A replica of the original Yaadaas Crest Pole, which was donated by John Baranovich of Old Kasaan over 100 years ago. The original Yaadaas Crest pole remains in the park's collection, and may be viewed in the Totem Preservation Exhibit.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Charles Bent
  • Type: Person

Charles Bent, alongside his partner, Ceran St. Vrain, and younger brother, William Bent, established the Bent, St. Vrain, and Company along the Santa Fe Trail in 1833. This adobe-constructed trading post beside the Arkansas River in southeastern Colorado was the first outpost between St. Louis, MO and Santa Fe, NM in its day. Charles and William's close association with Cheyenne and Arapaho nations enabled the company to prosper as a result of the buffalo robe trade.

George Rogers Clark National Historical Park

Francis Vigo
  • Type: Person

Francis Vigo was a Spanish Trader who warned Clark that the British had taken Fort Sackville and were planning on attacking him come the spring.

Atayataghlonghta – Colonel Louis Joseph Cook
  • Type: Person

Akiatonharónkwen was a the highest commissioned officer of Native and African descent in the Continental Army, and a Haudenosaunee warrior who supported the Americans throughout the American Revolution.

Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park

Chatham Laundry
  • Type: Place

The Chatham laundry is one of the original structures at Chatham, dating to the 1770s. Enslaved women labored and likely lived in this building. In the 1900s the laundry was converted to a guest house, then an office. Today, it is an office for park staff.